Facebook as of today has more than 1 billion users, and the number seems to be rising every single day making Facebook the most frequented social networking site in the world. Yet people are not aware of few hidden tips and tricks that will enhance your Facebook experience by leaps and also make Facebooking all the more enjoyable. Here they are!

Message Forwarding - There have been times when we tend to conspire or narrate a whole bunch of chats with one friend to another, and fortunately Facebook seems to know that. So to ease the daunting task of copying and pasting the chat, one can easily access the inbox, go to the top right’s dropdown menu titled ‘Actions’ and select Forward Messages. This allows a user to select a specific portion of the chat and forward it to people or a group of people. Let the conspiring begin!

Schedule Posts - A relatively new feature for Facebook’s pages, this one proves to be very handy for any Facebook page administrator. Scheduling posts allows an administrator to set a specific time and date for a post to be made public. This time might be 6 months into the future or in the past as well. Posts to be published in the past will appear during the right time-frame between other posts. This can be done by clicking on the clock icon under the status bar and setting the date and time for the posting.

Contact List - Many might be unfamiliar with this nifty little trick to sort your friend list into different sections as per your need. For instance, you can have all your close friends under one list while your office colleagues fit snugly into another one. By creating lists, you can view the updates and shares of people in a single list at the same time, making it convenient for you to keep a tab on them.

Also, this helps in sharing content smartly. There might be something you would want to share only with a specific list, so all you need to do is to click on the dropdown menu next to the ‘Post’ button and select the list, and you’re done!

Create Secret Groups - We all have a bunch of friends who love to share an insider’s joke and have a good laugh together, or maybe share a million-dollar idea with like-minded people and keep it that way. Facebook caters to this as well, and it’s done by the Secret Group.

A group that is visible to the members and nobody else, and can only be accessed by the members. New members can only be added on request of the administrator and content shared is not visible to any outsider. To create this ultra-awesome group, all you need to do is click on Create Group and select the radio button ‘Secret’ to make it secretive!

Facebook on Microsoft Outlook - Addicted to Facebooking a tad too much? Can’t keep away from putting up a status update or liking anything? And yet your office bars you from using it? Ease out, for there is a solution to this.

A snazzy toolbar provided by techhit.com titled FBLook (http://www.techhit.com/FBLook/) allows a user to integrate a small toolbar inside Microsoft’s Outlook that allows a user to update their status, view messages, pokes and view their friends’ status updates. We bet the rebel inside you is glad to see this loophole in the system!

Special Mention: Pirate English - For all we know, secretly everyone wants to be a Pirate; Sailing the high seas, looting, pillaging, drinking ale, finding treasures, and getting all the women. Thankfully, Facebook knows our secret desires, and so as to bring us one step closer to our dream, Facebook has integrated the Pirate Lingo under the Languages section!

A hilarious little Easter egg of sorts, Pirate English displays everything in the crude pirate dialect that we hear in typical pirate flicks. For instance, the status update bar that usually shows ‘What’s on your mind?’ ends up saying ‘What be troublin' ye?’! There are tonnes of other words and phrases that will remind you of Jack Sparrow and crack you up well enough. Check this out for a good laugh Ye Matey!

Contact List - Many might be unfamiliar with this nifty little trick to sort your friend list into different sections as per your need. For instance, you can have all your close friends under one list while your office colleagues fit snugly into another one. By creating lists, you can view the updates and shares of people in a single list at the same time, making it convenient for you to keep a tab on them.

Also, this helps in sharing content smartly. There might be something you would want to share only with a specific list, so all you need to do is to click on the dropdown menu next to the ‘Post’ button and select the list, and you’re done!